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What is the missile treaty Russia has walked out of – and why? | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russia on Monday announced it will stop abiding by a decades-old nuclear missile treaty with the United States, raising fears of the return of a Cold War-style arms race.The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, signed in 1987, had put a moratorium on the...

Japan logs two new highest temperatures on record in a day | Climate Crisis News

The recorded temperatures were 41.6C (106.8F) and 41.8C (107.2F), as weather agency warns of hotter days ahead.Japan has logged two new heat records in a day with the mercury hitting 41.6 degrees Celsius (106.8 degrees Fahrenheit) and then 41.8C (107.2F), according to the...

‘They’re selling the revolution’: Bangladesh a year after Hasina’s downfall | Politics News

Dhaka, Bangladesh – Sinthia Mehrin Sokal remembers the blow to her head on July 15 last year when she, along with thousands of fellow students, marched during a protest against a controversial quota system in government jobs in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka.The attack by...

Palestinians distraught over relatives missing at deadly Gaza aid sites | Israel-Palestine conflict News

As Israel’s forced starvation tightens its grip on Gaza’s entire population, an increasing number of Palestinian families are frantically searching for news of relatives who undertook perilous journeys to get food from aid distribution points, never to return.Khaled Obaid has been searching for...

Respecting the human right to sleep? Dream on | Health

When I was a freshman at Columbia University in 1999, the professor of my Literature Humanities course shared some personal information with my class, which was that she slept exactly three hours per night. I forget what prompted the disclosure, though I do recall it...

Palestinian women on hunger strike to demand body of slain activist | Occupied West Bank News

More than 60 Palestinian women are staging a hunger strike to demand the release of the body of Palestinian activist and English teacher Awdah Hathaleen, who was shot dead last week in the village of Umm al-Kheir, south of Hebron in the occupied West...
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